Archive for 'Gaza'
The expiration of the ‘Peace Process’: Where now for the Middle East?
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
A ‘peace process’ that, from its inception, took Israel’s self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the walls within which any solution for Palestinians was to be conducted, has reached exhaustion. Based on such a reductive premise, its arrival at this deathly nadir, with no more than […]
Posted: December 20th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
Comments: 1
| Permalink | home
Tourists in Washington: anatomy of an European Mideast failure
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
The ‘weakness’ of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although the scent of decline always has had a powerful affect in this region, the root of this western debilitation consists of a more profound ailment: […]
Posted: December 13th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Europe, Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
Comments: 1
| Permalink | home
Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza)
By Dr Islah Jad
The third in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the third Monograph.
Share This
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 under Feminism, Gaza, MONOGRAPHS, Palestinians, West Bank.
Comments: none
| Permalink | home
‘Businessmen posing as revolutionaries’: General Dayton and the “new Palestinian breed”
Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, by Aisling Byrne
Share This
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
Comments: none
| Permalink | home
Why the Gaza calm crashed
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, January 11, 2009
Many have asked in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza, how Hamas, if it saw the consequences of ending the ceasefire — and Hamas did foresee the likelihood of disproportionate Israeli military action — nonetheless could have acquiesced to the inevitable bloodshed — bloodshed that an Israeli […]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, War on Gaza.
Comments: 12
| Permalink | home
Nasrallah forecasts the prospect of coming conflict
On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is the text of the speech carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
“Esteemed scholars, brothers and sisters…I would like to […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria.
Comments: 4
| Permalink | home